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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:30 PM
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Remember when "Lifetime" was a quasi-feminist channel?


Remember when they had "current affairs" programs, talk shows like "Attitudes", Hosted by Linda Dano & Nancy Glass - which was often parodied on SNL?


And yet now, it's just a repository for tired, b-grade "woman in crisis" movies, sleazy adultery tv-movies, and silly stuff like "Unsolved Mysteries".


Wasn't this channel supposed to be about uplifting women? Wha' happen?


My wife was watching it just now, it kinda made me wonder...
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BBradley Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:32 PM
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1. They used to not play women in crisis movies?
Do they still have the WNHL? With no checking allowed...
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:36 PM
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2. Well, they do have good original series,
like Strong Medicine, Wild Card, The Division, and Missing; they're better than a lot of the crap on the network stations. Strong Medicine is particularly good, especially regarding all sides and aspects of women's issues.

But I agree, I remember the old Lifetime, including the "Attitudes" program, and it just ain't the same.
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mcscajun Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:37 PM
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3. I remember...then they shifted gears a few years ago...
...and became the "can this marriage be saved?" channel and I tuned it out. Permanently. It's off my favorites button on the remote, so I don't even have to see it accidentally.

It's trash with a feminine label. Ugh.
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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:37 PM
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4. I always call it the men are jerks channel.
Because as you said about the "woman in crisis" movies, the bad guy is usually a man and quite frankly, I think it just fans the flames of the battle of the sexes.
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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:41 PM
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5. What about the Golden Girls?
I always remember there being unheard of reruns of Golden Girls on.
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UdoKier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:43 PM
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7. Yeah, they have that. What could be a more feminist notion...
Than 4 old, promiscuous ladies living together in Florida, making ribald wisecracks?
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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:56 PM
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11. Bea Arthur
is a terrifying woman.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 04:29 PM
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15. Thank god for
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:42 PM
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6. No, I don't
I thought it was always just bad movies and schlock.

I missed the good stuff, I guess.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:44 PM
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8. ooooooooooooo
Underpants is gonna get you!!!!!
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:45 PM
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9. Now we have Oxygen and "Inhale" (great yoga program btw!) and
"Exhale" with all those movies and Ellen stuck in between. :hi: Oh, I almost forgot 'Oprah, After the Show"
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:56 PM
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10. When Danger Knocks, Don't Answer!
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silverpatronus Donating Member (520 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 03:57 PM
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12. i miss their reruns of 'designing women'
'the (annoying) nanny' just doesn't compare.
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liontamer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 04:20 PM
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13. less people watched
someone (i think from oxygen) said that the problem was that smart women with busy lives didn't want to come home and see smart women doing smart things, they wanted to relax and watch stupid women doing stupid things, so they could feel better about themselves
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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-04-05 04:26 PM
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14. All I really remember seeing is "woman as victim"
... usually tv movies that showed women being abused. I don't think feminists ever really embraced lifetime programming.

But I think I know what you mean about the programming now ... I have no idea how "unsolved mysteries" fits in ...
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